Coded Clay
Coded Clay is a series of 3D printed clay vessels generated from mathematical formulas. Each piece starts as an equation — written in Python inside Blender, drawing on Joseph Choma’s book Morphing — and ends as a physical object, printed on a CNC machine I adapted for clay extrusion.
The Process
I design seamless surfaces whose texture comes directly from the layering of the print itself. Because every object is generated from a formula, changing a few parameters produces a new variation — the same code can output an endless family of related pieces, each one printable and each one different.
Espresso Cups
The same workflow, scaled down to everyday objects. These espresso cups are modeled with Sverchok: a watertight toolpath for the base, then a spiralized contour that builds the cup as one continuous line of clay from bottom to rim. Small changes in the texturing parameters give every cup its own fingerprint.
Code Meets Craft
The tools here are code and machines, but the result is still pottery. That is what interests me about this project: digital fabrication doesn’t replace traditional craft — it gives it another set of hands.
